Category Archives: Autism

Hiking with kids. Beware! It changes as they grow up.

Hiking babies. Hiking with babies is relatively easy. “Only” what you have to do is carry baby in the sling. Yes, it can uncomfortable, often babies are heavy, but the good side is that they would usually fall asleep. Then, you can enjoy the views, peace and quiet and you can simply walk where you […]
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Mr Sting’s diary #1. Climbing in Scotland.

I turned 40 at the end of the September #sadface. As annoying and frustrating as it is, there is nothing I can do about that, might as well just get on with it. I am strong and fit so I cannot complain but I can slowly feel the time bearing down. There is so much […]
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How do we travel long road trips with kids. Tips and warnings.

Often when I am talking about our family travels with my friends or colleagues, they listen with smile to start with, and then usually their eyes are becoming wider and wider, and some even ending up their mouth opened very widely. This is usually a reaction to my description of how did we get to […]
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My Journey, My Learning, My Life.

As an active parent of child with special needs I often attend to a courses, meetings or training organised by different organisations. Last few Fridays I have attended to a course organised by Caroline Tomlinson, CEO My-Life, a charity which helps mainly people with special needs and their families. It is actually very interesting and […]
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Family with Autism

Today is the World Autism Awareness Day. Therefore there is no better day to explain how this condition affects our family and how we are trying to deal with it. The story should really start when our son, aka Flower Sting was born. But obviously we did not know he is going to have this […]
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